Well, it’s secure, all right…

This small IT consulting outfit gets a contract with a very, very big company — which is a very big deal, says a pilot fish at the consultancy.

“On a daily basis, a large text data file needs to get loaded into a very fast database, and that information is used to deal or not deal with certain customers,” fish explains. “And this all has to happen in real time.”

The big client is very security conscious, and it won’t let the consultancy download the data from the client’s site. Instead, a third-party site is used, and access is through a secure